Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-04-01
All HOME AND ABROAD.
People Whom the World Knows, and Of
Whom the Press Speaks.

People Whom the World Knows, ana OF
Whom the Press Speaks
Mrs Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is next
neighbor of Marie Van Zandt at Cannes tnls
winter.
The Prince of Wales will spend all this
month in foreign travel, largely In Malta anu
Greece
Gen. Thomas j. Brady, of star route no.
toriety, is reported to be almost entirely
broken down by adversely.
Frank Cushing has taken his wife and sister
with him and has gone to explore the Anm
ruins.
Lord Tennyson's eyesight is failing him to
such an extent as to cause serious alarm
among his numerous circle of friends
Mr.. Gladstone is so much overwhelmed
with gifts upon his birthday that he has
serious thought of adding to his announce
ments next year: mo gifts.
It is said that the Count de Lesseps is get
ting to be famous society man in Paris. He
goes to dance or a dinner every night
Ex-Governor John S. Routt, of Colorado,
an intimate friend of the late Gen. Logan,
says the general was too hearty eater for
his own good.
Miss Nettie Green, the thirty millionaire OF
New York, wears an enormous pair of rubber
boots in wet weather to avoid the expense OF
hiring a cab.
Senator Stanford has decided to erect in
Vulnerable small cottages to be used as quar-
tiers by the students at his new university,
the dormitory plan being too primitive, if not
unhealthy.
Queen Margaret of Italy occupies her leis-
ure hours in composing fables from the
dramatic legends of the Middle Ages, and
lately read one to her intimate circle, among
whom was Signor Bought, who highly praised
the fable and expressed wish that it should
be printed
Secretary Lamar was seized upon the other
day by the Emory college boys at Oxford,
Miss. They told him that since he had taken
Mrs. Holt from Oxford he must pay forfeit.
What they demanded was that he should give
the Grafton at the next commencement there
The bridegroom had to bow to the inevitable.
The empress of Austria has, according to
aTiauna correspondent, given orders that
her well furnished stables, both in Vienna,
Buda Pesth and Goedoelloe, are to be closed.
She has not mounted a horse in some time,
and the doctors give little hope that she will
ever mount one again.
Matt Carpenter as a Minister.
It is a curious feet that the late Matt Car
penter, who represented Wisconsin brilliantly
in the senate, at one time decided to enter the
ministry and began the study of theology.
He had lost his sight for time, and there
are many old people now living in the little
western town where he spent his first ten
L ears at the bar who can well remember the
ernest prayers and eloquent talks of the
young lawyer. Carpenter was then a tall,
spare, black eyed fellow, handsome as Lucifer
and as dangerous Rufus Choate sent him to
New York to put his eyes under treatment,
and he stuck to the law. His determination
to go into the ministry was a fleeing surren-
der to dependency, but his old friends al
ways cherished their dreams of his future
fame as the great, blind preacher of the west.
It was at this period in his life that Carpen-
ter acquired his fondness for Scripture read
ing, a trait which explains the simplicity and
clearness of his speeches in the senate and at
the bar-New York Sun.